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function word

function word noun: a word that has little meaning when standing alone, but instead serves to express grammatical relationships with other words within a sentence, or specify the attitude or mood of the speaker, including conjunctions, prepositions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs, certain frequent adverbs.

Noun

function word (plural function words)

  1. A word that has little meaning when standing alone, but instead serves to express grammatical relationships with other words within a sentence, or specify the attitude or mood of the speaker, including conjunctions, prepositions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs, certain frequent adverbs.
    • Durrant (2009), for example, developed a list of 1000 academic two-word bigrams, of which 763 were lexical words combined with function words.2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Position vectors, homologous chromosomes and gamma rays: Promoting disciplinary literacy through Secondary Phrase Lists”, in English for Specific Purposes, →DOI...

function word meaning in Tamil and Arabic

function word in Tamil

இடைச்சொல், பயன்பாட்டுச் சொல்

function word in Arabic

function word
كَلِمَة وَظِيفِيَّة kalima waẓīfiyya

Synonyms of function word

Antonyms

Forms of function word

pluralfunction words

Questions about function word

What does function word mean?
Function word means a word that has little meaning when standing alone, but instead serves to express grammatical relationships with other words within a sentence, or specify the attitude or mood of the speaker, including conjunctions, prepositions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs, certain frequent adverbs.
What is function word in Tamil?
Function word in Tamil is இடைச்சொல், பயன்பாட்டுச் சொல். See Function word meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is function word?
Function word is a noun.
What is the plural of function word?
The plural of function word is function words.

Words near function word in the dictionary

  1. function spaces
  2. function table
  3. function tables
  4. function value
  5. function values
  6. function word
  7. function words
  8. function-evaluation routine
  9. function-evaluation routines
  10. functionability
  11. functionable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: function word (page history and authors); function word (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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